Untaming aid through action research
Seeking transformative reflective action
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6134130 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alfredo Ortiz Aragón (0000-0003-0406-9948, University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, TX, USA), Kent Glenzer (0000-0002-8232-1590, Middlebury Institute of International Studies, Monterey, CA, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-14 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Action Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1476-7503 • E-ISSN: 1741-2617 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1476750317700253 |
| OpenAlex | W2615349232 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 5 |
Planned international development—Official Development Assistance—pretends to address complex, intergenerational problems. The pretense is endemic to, and necessary for, the continuation of the development enterprise, frequently leading to docile projects. Official Development Assistance’s methodologies and methods are ill-matched for confronting such problems, while those of action research are well-suited to the task. Yet Official Development Assistance and action research are only infrequent and ephemeral bedmates. Research from five sites on three continents reveals five lessons for untaming aid through action research: (1) plan and develop programming iteratively and over long time frames to offer meaningful support to people’s lives, (2) develop new connective tissue and relational capital, (3) commit to inquiry and learning in specific contexts, (4) incrementally confront culturally embedded practice in a safe and feasible manner, and (5) use methodology to develop safe and participatory spaces that engage tacit and explicit perspectives and ways of knowing. This article, the introductory essay to the Action Research Journal’s special issue, “Development, Aid, and Social Transformation,” argues that adoption of these five practices could help untame Official Development Assistance and make it more powerful, ethical, and transformative
Action (physics · Action plan · Action research · Citizen journalism · Commit · Engineering ethics · Management · Participatory action research · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Transformative learning · Community Development and Social Impact · Community Health and Development · Computer Science · Engineering · Innovative Education and Learning Practices · Law
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The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Human Rights
Catalysing global and local social change in the land sector through technical innovation by the United Nations and the Global Land Tool Network
Reflections on the potential (and limits) of action research as ethos, methodology and practice
Building transformative capacity in southern Africa
| Citations per year | 0.63 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2023 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |